the band plays tonight in new york. the musical genius, billy corgan. that's how they describe you. good morning. >> good morning. >> good to see you. the fans say the new band is reinvigorated, reincorporated, the best vocals in years. do you think about that too? >> i think america is obsessed what's called the peak moment and as an artist i'm intoed in the journey. i'm just as interested in the lesser times as i am in the greater times. the as with picasso, there are horrible paintings. but i try not to get caught up in the mindset of that great, great, great, great. >> was it inevitable you would bring back smashing pumpkins? >> it's kind of funny. we discussed when with the band broke up, we started to create a psychological space so that years later if we ever wanted to pick it back up, we would know where to start again. but they didn't sort of honor their end of it. we had sort of a kind of an unspoken contract that if we ever decided to put it back together, it will be like this for these set of reasons. so when i decided to press that button again, those got the point wher